I found some scripts on my workstation that have not been
published and may be interesting for some people. Actually, I will not prepare them for publishing, but you can
contact me, if you are interested in one or more of them.

A tool for the backup of network components. The script runs as a daemon and can be configured via config files.
It reads in the config files containing the passwords of the components once, so you can store them in a crypt storage.
There exist severeal templates for ssh, scp, telnet. The intention is to make automated backups from router, switches, firewalls etc.

Postfixanalyser was written for the trendmicro mail virusscanner. You can search for mails and you will get a
status for the found mails: when did the system receive it, when was it working with the mail the last time, whats the status of the
mail, where there any problem while delivering the mail. The second feature was a simple statistic: bytes and number of mails received and send,
mails by status (received from extern, queued, sent to trend, received from trend, queued, delivered) and mails by problem
(deferred and not sent to scanner (scanner rejected), deferred and not sent to scanner (scanner down), sent to trend, but deferred before,
dereffed and not sent to extern (mta rejected), deferred and not sent to extern (mta down), sent to extern, but deferred befor).

A logscanner and a scanner for the checkpoint objects file.

A tool, that parses the registry of the genugate firewall and produces a more human readable output in html.

A ftp-script for the honeynet.

Various backupscripts in Perl and Bash.

Various iptables scrips.

A script called minilinux to create a small linux out of a huge running system.

Pigsparty was a small projetct that was never finished. The idea was to convert snort rule sets into iptables rule sets.

A snort admin interface in php.

A perlmodule and some programs (e.g. mfl) for the preparation and analysis of longitudinal data with a focus of same domains.

In my previous article, I gave an introduction
to the
open architecture of RISC-V. This article
looks at how
I and a small team of Fedorausers ported a large part of the Fedora package set to RISC-V. It was a
daunting task, especially when there is no real hardware or existing
infrastructure, but we were able to get there in a part-time effort over a
year and a half or so.
Subscribers can read on for a look at getting Fedora onto RISC-V by guest
author Richard W.M. Jones.

Some years ago, prominent community leaders doubtedthat even
short-term stable maintenance of kernel releases was feasible. More
recently, selecting an occasional kernel for a two-year maintenance cycle
has become routine, and some kernels, such as 3.2 under the care of Ben
Hutchings, have received constant maintenance for as much as six years. But
even that sort of extended maintenance is not enough for some use cases, as
Yoshitake Kobayashi explained in his Embedded Linux Conference talk. To
meet those needs, the Civil
Infrastructure Platform (CIP)project is
setting out to maintain releases for a minimum of 20 years.

The 4.16-rc6kernel prepatch is out.
"Go test, things are stable and there's no reason to worry, but all
the usual reasons to just do a quick build and verification that everything
works for everybody. Ok?"

Over on the Red Hat Developer Program blog, David Malcolm describesa number of usability improvements that he has made for the upcoming GCC 8release. Malcolm has made a number of the C/C++ compiler error messages much more helpful, including adding hints for integrated development environments (IDEs) and other tools to suggest fixes for syntax and other kinds of errors. "[...] the code is fine, but, as is common with fragments of code seen on random websites, it?s missing #includedirectives. If you simply copy this into a new file and try to compile it as-is, it fails.
This can be frustrating when copying and pasting examples ? off the top of your head, which header files are needed by the above? ? so for gcc 8 I?ve added hints telling you which header files are missing (for the most common cases)."He has various examples showing what the new error messages and hints look like in the blog post.

Alex Shi's posting of a patch seriesbackporting a set of Meltdown fixes for the arm64 architecture to the
4.9 kernel might seem like a normal exercise in making important security
fixes available on older kernels. But this case raised a couple of
interesting questions about why this backport should be accepted into the
long-term-support kernels ? and a couple of equally interesting answers,
one of which was rather better received than the other.

As is often the case, the python-ideas mailing list hosted a discussion
about a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) recently. In some sense, this
particular PEP
was created to try to gather together the pros and cons of a
feature idea that regularly crops up: statement-local bindings for variable
names. But the discussion of the PEP went in enough different directions
that it led to calls for an entirely different type of medium in which to
have those kinds of discussions.

Let's Encrypt has announcedthat ACMEv2 (Automated Certificate Management Environment) and wildcard
certificate support is live. ACMEv2is an updated
version of the ACME protocol that has gone through the IETF standards
process. Wildcard
certificatesallow you to secure all subdomains of a domain with a
single certificate. (Thanks to Alphonse Ogulla)

GNOME 3.28 has been released. "This release brings a more beautiful
font, an improved on-screen keyboard and a new 'Usage' application.
Improvements to core GNOME applications include support for favorites in
Files and the file chooser, a better month view in the Calendar, support
for importing pictures from devices in Photos, and many more."See
the release
notesfor details.